Barrack-Room Ballads

Rudyard Kipling

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Barrack-Room Ballads by Rudyard Kipling, is a set of songs and poems, first published in 1892. The collection includes some of Kiplings best known work such as Gunga Din (written from the point of view of a British soldier in India), Mandalay (set in colonial Burma), Tommy (written from the view point of a British soldier), and Danny Deever (describes the execution of a British soldier in India for murder). Other poems in Barrack-Room Ballads are: Fuzzy-Wuzzy; Soldier, Soldier; Screw-Guns; Cells; Oonts; Loot; Snarleyow; The Widow at Windsor; Belts; The Young British Soldier; Troopin; The Widows Party; Ford o Kabul River; Gentlemen-Rankers; Route Marchin; Shillin a Day; Bobs; Back to the Army Again; Birds of Prey March; Soldier an Salor Too; Sappers; That Day; The Men that fought at Minden; Cholera Camp; The Ladies; Bill Awkins; The Mother-Lodge; Follow Me Ome; The Sergeants Weddin; The Jacket; The Eathen; Mary, Pity Women!; and, For to Admire.

Disponibile da: 25/12/2025.

Lunghezza di stampa: 56 pagine.

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